Episode 11: Taking it Further
The Flat Planet Project is a remarkable wiki project run by Simon O’Carroll from Ontario, Canada, and Neil D’Aguair from Surrey, UK. These two teachers of Religious Education met via the blogosphere and together came up with a simple yet incredibly effective research project for their students with topics such as climate change, vegetarianism, air pollution and endangered species. In the process, they took the students much further than they ever expected. In this episode we talk to Simon and Neil about the behind-the-scenes of the Flat Planet Project.
Using the free Wikispaces service, their students worked collaboratively across the Atlantic to create an incredibly impressive joint project. Along the way, both teachers and students got far more out of the project than they expected.
Some links we mentioned in the episode…
- The Flat Planet Project - Simon O’Carroll and Neil D’Aguiar
- Flat Classroom Project - Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay
- Wiki While you Work - Mark Wagner
- Free Wikispaces for Educators
- Simon Says - Simon’s Blog
- Intellectual Bohemian - Neil’s Blog
Enjoy.
June 26th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
[…] To close up the Flat Planet Project Neil and I were interviewed by Chris Betcher for his Virtual Staffroom Podcast. We had a great conversation about the project and web 2.0 in general and the incorporation of technology into the classroom. When thinking about our conversation it made us realize that the world really is flat considering this was a three-way conversation between three educators on three different continents. I’m sure Neil and I will be thinking and talking about what we will do next. Furthermore, we would like you to join us. We would love for our next collaborative project to reach beyond our two countries. It would be great to have a third or even fourth country/continent join us for the next project. After all, as I have said before the word catholic means universal and we would like to make our next project a truly catholic one. « My Twentieth Post - Flat Planet Follow Up | […]
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